Welsh Rabbit Quotes

The first written record of the term Welsh rabbit: "I did not eat of cold beef, but of Welsh rabbit and stewed cheese."

John Byron, ‘Literary Remains’ (1725)

“Rarebit, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humourless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-the-hole is really not a toad, and that 'riz-de-veau a la financiere' is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.”